Features
Areas of Use
- Melting Point: 97-115 °C
- Specific Gravity: 0.922
- Appearance: Hard, white, translucent, tasteless, non-toxic, odorless.
- Melting Point: 150 °C
- Polyethylene wax exhibits a more slippery characteristic compared to natural waxes due to its advanced molecular structure. Therefore, it is heavily used in the lubricants group. It also finds applications as a resin additive, mold release agent, hot melt adhesives, and in rubber processing. It is widely used in various fields due to its properties such as pigment wetting, lubricity, and heat resistance. Polyethylene waxes, with their dense crystalline component structure, show low solubility in solvents. Another purpose of use is to act as a homogenizing agent in formulations.
Polyethylene wax is a polymer from the low-molecular-weight polyethylene group. Due to its molecular structure, this chemical product exhibits a highly slippery characteristic, unlike natural waxes. Therefore, it is heavily preferred in the group called lubricants.